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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnyone shop at an Amazon Fresh store?
It’s quite a novel experience.
One recently opened up locally and we tried it out today. They have standard carts and a regular checkout line, but they also have carts that scan and weigh your items.
If you’ve linked the cart to your Amazon account, you scan your items using the cart scanners and you see a running tally on the cart screen of your grocery items and prices -- and when you’re done you exit through a special no-wait lane and the receipt is sent to your account's email address.
Prices are very competitive and the fruits and vegetables were quite fresh; I presume they’re getting their produce from the same Whole Paycheck provider. There were plenty of helpful employees, and the store was clean, well-stocked, and not very crowded.
It seems to me that this may be what grocery shopping in the near future might look like.
YMMV.

Coventina
(28,287 posts)
Silent Type
(8,932 posts)Zorro
(17,169 posts)Silent Type
(8,932 posts)lame54
(37,789 posts)Non member prices are very high
senseandsensibility
(21,630 posts)grocery store. It has excellent prices and longtime helpful employees who are my neighbors. They cut salmon filets to order for no charge, help us to our car with the groceries if we need it and personalize the decorations on birthday cakes in the bakery for no charge. Love them! Only time I didn't patronize them was a few years ago when they were on strike.
msongs
(71,062 posts)delisen
(6,913 posts)If I do I won’t be able to eat at all.
Demovictory9
(35,273 posts)Beringia
(4,997 posts)my local place doesn't carry it, just the small ones and I live on peanut butter sometimes
redstatebluegirl
(12,641 posts)mucholderthandirt
(1,434 posts)I have my groceries delivered from Walmart. Yeah. I know. Sue me. I can't walk around any store these days, my knees are like walking on glass shards. We're out in the boonies, and for some reason Walmart started doing deliveries out here. I have Walmart+, so I can get free delivery, too. No one else will deliver out here.
I could go and get curbside pickup from a couple of places, but to be honest, I don't drive that much anymore, and that isn't going to change. Getting too old and too out of it at times.
If my doctor would agree to have something done about my knees, I might change my mind (not that we have such a store here, but there are others). He thinks waiting until I lose more weight would make a difference. It hasn't. Twenty pounds down and knees are just as bad.
Tommy Carcetti
(43,843 posts)I only use Amazon when I have to and I couldn't foresee wanting to use them for groceries.
As a corporation Publix is far from perfect but as a supermarket they are very efficient and consumer friendly, so I'll stick with them.
sir pball
(4,993 posts)Do what you will with that information.
Not that any of it really matters, Amazon makes 75% of their profit from AWS which is completely unavoidable in this modern digital world.
Zorro
(17,169 posts)The store seemed to have a lot of employees, the store was not crowded at all, and prices were really pretty good. For example -- I'm partial to Greek Gods yogurt, and it seems their regular price is $3.53 while other stores carry it for a couple dollars more.
We'll be adding it to our shopping circuit here in SoCal along with Costco, Trader Joe's, Vons, and Ralphs; it pays to shop around. And if Amazon loses money on the stores, so be it.
Trailrider1951
(3,514 posts)I quit Amazon last December. I mostly shop at employee-owned Winco. Their prices are the best in my area, and employee-owned is a very good thing, jmho.